[R-pkg-devel] GitHub actions incantation for package living in a subdirectory?

[Ben Bolker]

   Hi folks,

   Attempting to transition a package (glmmTMB/glmmTMB on GitHub) from 
Travis-CI to GIthub Actions.

   Setting this up with usethis::use_github_actions() seems fairly 
straightforward, ... but ... this project has the R package living, not 
in the root directory of the repository, but in the 'glmmTMB' 
subdirectory.  In principle, "all" I have to do is add 
"working-directory: ./glmmTMB" in the right place in the 
.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml file, but I don't seem to have 
succeeded so far. The results have either been very rapid failure due to 
syntax errors (https://github.com/glmmTMB/glmmTMB/actions), *or* 
apparently nothing (browsing around, it seems as though one doesn't 
generally see GH actions results until the run is completed?)

    Does anyone have suggestions (or, ideally, an example of a package 
with this repository configuration with a working GH actions setup)?

Recent attempts: https://github.com/glmmTMB/glmmTMB/commits/github_actions

Most recent attempt: 
https://github.com/glmmTMB/glmmTMB/commit/d1a08058636df0a4835f897d1e43909510f9c652

     happy holidays to all ...

      Ben Bolker